Posted on 10/31/2021 8:50:22 PM PDT by blueplum
A Florida TikTok star deliberately sparked a 100mph police chase - then told cops who arrested him his wealth and youth made him immune from the law, it is claimed.
Damaury Mikula, 18, of Pasco, Florida, has more than four million followers on TikTok and has frequently posted content featuring his Dodge Challenger, a vehicle that can go up to 141mph with a top price of around $60,000.
The TikTok star, who is said to make $400,000 to $450,000 per year, was recorded on Friday being chased in that car by Pasco County Police at the intersection of State Route 54 at Sunlake Boulevard in Florida....
...'Mr. Mikula advised his state of mind was that he is young, makes a lot of money, and has a fast car and he can do whatever he wants,' Trooper W. Kelly of the Florida Highway Patrol told WFLA. ...
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Hey Bikkuri! Of course I’m here. :) I didn’t know you left. I hope you can make it back.
OMG!! The PUNK is BLACK!! I AM SHOCKED! Although his NAME gives it away also!
LOL, well, I never got into the bed of a pickup that was headed for rough roads again, I’ll tell you!
That was damned dangerous, I was sore for days afterwards from being slammed up and down on that metal.
Yes...#DumbThingsYouOnlyDoOnce!
Now that is sick!
LOL, my wife would most certainly agree with that...
Heck. She has never been the same since she rear-ended a car on an icy bridge a few years after we married. Since then, she is a white-knuckle passenger.
She is fine when she is driving, but when I am driving, it is quite a different thing for her.
I have offered to put a fake brake pedal over there for her...
I know.
Funny, for a long time, I never thought I was going to live past the age of thirty. In my mind, my life after 30 was opaque to me. I could not imagine myself as a gray haired old guy. Couldn’t see anything, and it was slightly unnerving.
Then when I hit thirty...I was able to visualize it.
We were lucky. I sometimes feel that I lucked out in places where so many young people did not. If not for the grace of God...
“but speed kills”
Not so fast... Riding hyper bikes I have saved myself several times because I could explosively accelerate away from harm.
Gee Why did I know?
County jail for six months (no bail, flight risk) ought to teach him that youth counts for nothing.
The dweebs that spend time watching TT need an object lesson — get caught, get hurt. There is no immunity to anything when you are stupid..
That the EDUCATION system is a total failure.
I believe this point deserves a thank you for your service.
NAH——SPEED DOES NOT KILL....
IT is the SUDDEN STOP that gets you :)
Thank you-I always maintain accurately that I got more out of my military experience than it got out of me, but...the same can’t be said of many young people who gave far more of themselves than I was ever asked to do.
That said, it is more accurately a comment on how valuable my military experience was to me-I learned lessons about life, working with others, and my own strengths and weaknesses that would have taken me far longer to see outside the military, and those lessons have served me darn well the rest of my life.
In the past, I always recommended military service to a young person who was drifting out of High School, but...I have difficulty doing that now. The military is largely so “woke” that I would feel bad recommending it to someone who wasn’t under the spell of that crap. I feel certain they must pound it into you now.
I bet! My closest experience to that was when a bunch of us "barn kids" went out in a Toyota pickup truck to throw hay out in the pasture. A fourteen year-old was driving. Three of us were sitting on the tailgate tossing flakes of hay out to the horses and one was standing in the bed of the truck. She hit a hole in the field, the tailgate bounced and we all went flying. Fortunately she wasn't going that fast.
I drove a KZ1000 once, friend gave it a tune up and a bath for his son. Never met the son, who was aroound 30.
Damn thing had so much power it scared me, never got above about 60 or 65. Couldn’t park it and get off fast enough.
My brother’s Honda 350 was enough for me. Got it up to 80 one day on a straight road, testing it out after a tune up, that was fast enough for me on 2 wheels. I knew I had a 2 mile straight road, plenty time to slow down.
On the way home I was keeping it to about 60, locust flew across in front of me. Got me in the right eye. Almost knocked me off the bike, I had to pull over for 5 minutes to get my wits back and let the pain ease up. Glad I didn’t have sunglasses on, they would have been shattered, I would have been in big trouble. Little used country road outside Bryan, might see a car in the next 45 minutes or so, those Ray Bans would have seriously hurt me.
Got a car up to 140 once, wasn’t crazy about that when it started to feel more like a boat going squirrelly...thing started wandering all over the road, I got off the gas. 76 Mustang, with a 283 but didn’t have the suspension for that kind of speed. So when it started to motorboat about 140 I’d had enough, only kept it up for a half mile or so...which goes by really quick...
I could see that clearly in my mind!
Ahhh...the stupidity of youth and inexperience!
Good luck with that, Myazz! Schadenfreude!
My son is a police officer and him and one of the other officers in his department has cited one old lady in our small town 2-3 times each: no license, no insurance, expired tags. She keeps 3-4 grand kids in the car so they won’t tow it and so far it’s worked but my son told me next time with him it’s towed, child services called and the old bag’s going to jail.
In July he wrote 300 citations——none of them were for speeding. All were for expired tags, no license, revoked license, improper display of tags, no insurance etc... He wasn’t ordered or given a quota, he said all I had to do was open my eyes.
They are bigger idiots?
...not to mention the filling of a void...the void left after removal of "faith"... by what's become of our evil/brain-fornicating institutions of...
1. Government
2. "Entertainment"/Media
3. Public primary/secondary education.
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